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Join acclaimed conductor Guillermo Figueroa as he leads the UNCSA Symphony Orchestra through Hector Berlioz’s masterpiece, “Symphonie Fantastique.” Figueroa, a Berlioz specialist ...
This new recording, pairing two French masterworks — Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique and Ravel’s La valse — was made following a successful tour by the Orchestre de Paris with the Berlioz ...
The other day, Arkansas Symphony guest conductor Kazem Abdullah described Hector Berlioz's "Symphonie Fantastique" as "a great barn-burner to end the season with." Well, the orchestra created ...
starring Hector Berlioz himself, besotted with a Shakespearian actress. His passion-propelled Symphonie Fantastique follows the love-sick hero’s drug-induced visions to a glittering ball ...
“The concert culminates with Hector Berlioz’s visionary Symphonie Fantastique, a symphonic odyssey that delves into the depths of the Romantic imagination,” Speck said. The last performances ...
French composer Hector Berlioz’s “Symphonie Fantastique “ is a trip. Across an unconventional five movements, it depicts the hallucinatory experience of a lovelorn artist attempting suicide ...
While the final movement of Hector Berlioz’s monumental “Symphonie Fantastique” sounds like something that ought to be played on Halloween, with its hallucinogenic imagery of death ...
The Berlioz Symphonie fantastique, the most dramatic of symphonies, must have been quite a shock at its 1830 premiere, and it still amazes. Although the composer later downplayed the program he ...